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The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions." --American Statesman Daniel Webster (1782-1852)

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Voters Remorse and Obamacare

I pulled this stuff off several sources including the LA times, the NY Post, Drudge Report and other places. Obamacare was never intended to be an insurance program, it is designed to control the populace. The people that pushed this pile of crap on us made sure that they are exempt from the laws and penalties of Obunglercare. The bad thing is that I don't know if it can be repealed if the republicans are able to get the presidency and both chambers of congress. Quite a few people believe that this is a massive attempt to kill the middle class, have only the elitist and the poor since they will be depending on the government for benefits, it will guarentee democrat control for generations until the whole system collapses and a democratic based dictatorship starts up since the democrats already believe that they know what is best for you, to get a dictatorship at the end with them in control isn't much a stretch.
The middle class is what made America unique in the world, other countries had rich and poor, no middle ground, basically the rulers and the serfs. The middle class is what took power away from the elitist, check out European history and see what it did to the rule of the kings and barons.
This program is designed to bankrupt the middle class kinda like what Stalin did to the kulaks in Russia in the 30's, the Kulaks were the landowning peasantry and they had the rule of law to an extent, well the era of the strongman or Stalin wiped them out, Stalin killed millions on engineered famine and cost controls, He basically seized the wealth of the Kulaks to finance the heavy industry that the Communist loved.
Think about it, the rich have their own program and the poor get subsidized, whereas the middle class pay for all the increases out of their own pocket. The middle class will bear the brunt of Obamacare. The government wants more people to depend on them for basic needs, easier to control a dependent population.

New York doctors are treating ObamaCare like the plague, a new survey reveals.
A poll conducted by the New York State Medical Society finds that 44 percent of MDs said they are not participating in the nation’s new health-care plan.
Another 33 percent say they’re still not sure whether to become ObamaCare providers.
Only 23 percent of the 409 physicians queried said they’re taking patients who signed up through health exchanges.
“This is so poorly designed that a lot of doctors are afraid to participate,” said Dr. Sam Unterricht, president of the 29,000-member organization. “There’s a lot of resistance. Doctors don’t know what they’re going to get paid.”
Three out of four doctors who are participating in the program said they “had to participate” because of existing contractual obligations with an insurer or medical provider, not because they wanted to.
Only one in four “affirmatively” chose to sign up for the exchanges.
Nearly eight in 10 — 77 percent — said they had not been given a fee schedule to show much they’ll get paid if they sign up.
The survey invited doctors to anonymously share opinions about the new health care law, and many took time out of their busy days to vent.
“Obama Care wants to start right away, but who see all these new patients???? Not me,” e-mailed one doc.
Another said, “I plan to retire if this disaster is implemented. This is a train wreck.”
“I refuse to participate in the exchange plans! I am completely opposed to this new law,” said a third respondent.
One doctor recycled the mantra used to attack addictions: “The solution is simple: Just say no.”
One physician was so disgusted, he threatened to taken only cash patients going forward.
“I am seriously considering opting out of all insurance plans including Medicare because of [ObamaCare].”
Some physicians said the pressure on insurance carriers to control costs is leading to rationed care.
“OBAMACARE is a disaster. I have already seen denial of medication, denial of referrals,” one doc said.
And they worry that stingy payments for medical services offered by insurers could put some doctors out of business and force others into retirement.
“Any doctor who accepts the exchange is just a bad businessman/woman. Pays terrible,” argued one doctor.
Said another MD, “Can’t imagine any doctors would be willing to work for so little money? All doctors should boycott.”
Doctors complained they’ve gotten the shaft for years even before ObamaCare.

Photo: AP/Charles Dharapak

“She said, ‘I was all for ObamaCare until I found out I was paying for it.’ ”
— The president of Anthem Blue Cross in California,
, talking about a woman who wrote the insurance company to complain about a 50 percent hike in her plan because of ObamaCare

“I get screwed from insurance companies already. I refuse to get screwed any longer,” one doctor said.
Others said they don’t have enough information to make an informed choice.
“This is a joke. We are flying blind,” said one doctor.

WASHINGTON — The White House finally admitted Monday that President Obama is breaking his promise that if you like your health insurance, you can keep it under ObamaCare.
“It’s true that there are existing health-care plans on the individual market that don’t meet those minimum standards and therefore do not qualify for the Affordable Care Act,” said White House spokesman Jay Carney, referring to plans nixed under the sweeping new law.NBC News reported Monday that sources deeply involved in ObamaCare concede that 50 to 75 percent of the 14 million consumers who buy their insurance individually can expect to have coverage canceled in the next year.
One expert said the figure could be as high as 80 percent.
Obama administration officials knew when the regulations were written in 2010 that 40 to 67 percent of consumers on the individual market would lose coverage, NBC said.
Carney insisted Monday that only “substandard” plans would be yanked under ObamaCare.
“There are some that can be grandfathered if people want to keep insurance that is substandard,” Carney added.
“What is also true: Americans who have insurance on the existing individual market will now have numerous options available to them, and six out of 10 will pay less than $100 per month in premiums for better insurance.”
Obama has repeatedly pledged that his overhaul of the health-care system wouldn’t deprive Americans of their current insurance plans or doctors.
“We will keep this promise to the American people. If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health-care plan, you will be able to keep your health-care plan. Period,” he declared on June 15, 2009.
The admission that some will, in fact, lose the plans they’ve got comes amid mounting ObamaCare headaches, including a day-long crash of the glitch-plagued Web sites where Americans are supposed to sign up for mandatory health-insurance plans.
What’s more, a growing number of consumers are shocked to discover that the law has caused them to get hit with massive premium increases, lose their doctor or simply get dropped by their insurance company.
Elderly New Yorkers were left reeling when they received notices that insurance companies were booting their doctors from the popular Medicare Advantage program because of ObamaCare, The Post recently revealed.
“Obama had said I could keep my doctor. Now they’re doing away with my doctor. They kicked him out! After 20 years, that’s not right,” said Alfred Gargiulio, who has cerebral palsy and has been seeing the same doctor in Brooklyn since 1993.
Nearly 900,000 elderly New Yorkers are enrolled in Advantage plans, which are Medicare HMOs run by private insurers.
Other New Yorkers were floored when they learned they would have to pay 100 percent of the bill if they used a doctor outside their plan’s network — a harsh penalty not imposed by most plans before ObamaCare.

The ObamaCare pain is throbbing in other states, as well.
In Florida, at least 300,000 people have lost health coverage. And just one insurer in California, Kaiser Permanente, canceled policies for 150,000 people, CBS News reported.
HealthCare.gov, the online federal exchange, crashed before dawn Sunday and didn’t come back online until 7 a.m. Monday.
The outage affected not just the 36 Web sites run by the federal government, but also the 14 sites run by states.
The crash occurred about a week after the administration promised a “tech surge” of the nation’s best computer geeks to fix glitches that have hobbled the Web site since its Oct. 1 launch.
Officials said the site would be fixed by the end of November.
The Department of Health and Human Services blamed the latest crash on an outage of a data-service hub run by Verizon Communication’s Terremark unit.
Other glitches persisted, such as an agonizingly long wait for people trying to set up an account on the Web sites.
“We are committed 24/7 to having our team dedicated to putting those fixes in place and moving forward,” said Julie Bataille, a spokeswoman for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which runs HealthCare.gov.

Insurance companies aren't sending out cancellation letters, they're helping people "transition" into Obamacare, according to a top Democrat.
"If [the companies] changed [the insurance plans] then they have to
notify the people who have to have the opportunity to have another
policy," said House Ways and Means Committee ranking member Sander
Levin, D-Mich.
In fact, according to Levin, the "so-called cancellation notices" merely "help people transition to a new policy."
Levin cited comments made by Florida Blue CEO Patrick Geraghty, the insurance company executive who originally floated the "transitioning" talking point on Sunday's Meet the Press.
"We're not cutting people, we're actually transitioning people,"
Geraghty told NBC's David Gregory. "What we've been doing is informing
folks that their plan doesn't meet the test of the essential health
benefits, therefore they have a choice of many options that we make
available through the exchange."
Geraghty's argument may exonerate Florida Blue, but the fig leaf
doesn't cover Obamacare nearly as well as Levin suggested, given that
"the test of the essential health benefits" comes from Obamacare and
invalidated the previously acceptable insurance policies.

There's no doubt congressional investigators have their hands full probing allegations the Internal Revenue Service
targeted conservative nonprofit groups. But now a different IRS scandal
-- involving the chronic, ongoing, mind-bogglingly wasteful
mismanagement of a popular tax credit program -- demands Congress'
attention because it has taken on new importance with the arrival of
Obamacare.
The program is the Earned Income Tax Credit, through which the
federal government gives out between $60 billion and $70 billion to
low-income working Americans each year. It's known as a "refundable" tax
credit, but it is basically a transfer payment, in which the IRS sends a
check — perhaps even $5,000 every year — to workers who have little or
no tax liability.
The problem is, the IRS does little to determine whether recipients
actually qualify for the money. A recent report by the IRS inspector
general says the agency has given out somewhere between $110 billion and
$132 billion in improper Earned Income Tax Credit payments in the last
decade. In that time period, between 21 and 30 percent of tax credit
payments went to people who didn't qualify for them.

That is bad enough. But what infuriates lawmakers is that the IRS
refuses to do anything about it. Agency officials told the inspector
general they couldn't fix the problem because the tax credit program is
very complicated, and also because they are afraid vigorous enforcement
would discourage legitimately qualified recipients from applying for
credits. And the IRS is not only not working to reduce improper
payments, it is refusing to report those payments to Congress as
required. The bottom line, in the words of inspector general Russell
George: "The IRS is unlikely to achieve any significant reduction in
Earned Income Tax Credit improper payments."
Rep. Dave Camp,
R-Mich., chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, has heard that
before. "The IRS has repeatedly ignored the fraud and abuse in the
Earned Income Tax Credit program, which has already cost Americans over
$100 billion," Camp said in a statement Monday. "Americans should be
confident that their tax dollars are being used properly, but that
confidence has been shattered by the blatant disregard this agency has
shown for monitoring refundable tax credits and better protecting
taxpayers."
The flow of money has continued despite the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act, which Congress passed and President Obama
signed in 2010. The law "requires agencies to achieve an improper
payment rate of 10 percent or less for each high-risk program," says a
recent compilation of IRS reports prepared by the Ways and Means
Committee. "The Earned Income Tax Credit's improper payment rate has
been above 20 percent since 2003."
And now comes Obamacare. In the new national health care scheme, the
IRS will do basically what it does with the Earned Income Tax Credit: It
will determine Americans' eligibility for subsidies, to be paid in the
form of tax credits, and then hand those tax credits out. And that has
lawmakers concerned.
"Considering the IRS’ failure to address the Earned Income Tax Credit
problem," says Camp, "there is no reason to think the agency will
somehow do a better job administering the refundable tax credits
included in Obamacare."
Indeed, it is easy to imagine the IRS arguing that it simply cannot
prevent improper Obamacare tax credits because the health system is so
complicated and because it does not want to discourage legitimately
qualified Americans from receiving health care subsidies. If the fraud
level is anything like the Earned Income Tax Credit program, improper
Obamacare payments could soar into the hundreds of billions of dollars.
And what will Congress do about it? Maybe not much. Hill sources say
the Ways and Means Committee is "evaluating" the latest tax credit
figures and might possibly schedule a hearing. But one source adds, "We
have brought this up with IRS officials in the past, but without much
impact, as they tend to talk but not act."
So doesn't Congress have anything to say about that? If the IRS
thumbs its nose at lawmakers, do lawmakers have to take it? Of course
not. Congress has broad powers to oversee federal agencies; if lawmakers
wanted, they could knock some heads and get the IRS' attention.
Whether Congress will exercise that power is another question altogether. It certainly hasn't in the past. But with the arrival of Obamacare, the question of improper payments by the IRS, already an ongoing scandal, might soar to a new level, finally demanding action.

Well Helllllloooooooo? I've been shouting this since before Barry became president but everyone was sooooo impressed with how well a black man could speak that they didn't listen to a fricking word he was saying, or look into his past. The great black redeemer of all the white man's sins.

Well, the chicken's have come home to roost and stupid idiots who voted for him not once but twice have doomed us all to some very tough times ahead.

Well Helllllloooooooo? I've been shouting this since before Barry became president but everyone was sooooo impressed with how well a black man could speak that they didn't listen to a fricking word he was saying, or look into his past. The great black redeemer of all the white man's sins.

Well, the chicken's have come home to roost and stupid idiots who voted for him not once but twice have doomed us all to some very tough times ahead.

Hey Old NFO; I had spoken with my Dr a few times and they are not excited in the least about Obunglercare. I have considered in the near future of becoming an EXPAT because of the direction I see the direction of the country. and I keep drawing parallels between us and Hitler's Germany in the 1930's.

Hey Agulla; The rest of us have shouted the same thing, but the country was in a rush to elect "The anti-Bush" and the first black president in American history. So our warnings fell on deaf ears.

Mr. Garibaldi, thanks for the article! Great summary of what is going on. Unfortunately, when you say "The rest of us have shouted the same thing ..." , the rest of us were far too few who do not know or understand history or that the movement of socialists/communists is alive and well in the USA.

As for Old NFO, I beat you to it! I left for the Philippines just before this clown was elected. I knew he was going to win and I knew it would be a disaster. I only await the second revolution so I can return to help with the reclamation of the true America that I love. Unfortunately, the system is so broken, it will take catastrophic action to turn things around. And it will be ugly. Just a matter of time.

It is on my bucket list to go to the Philippines and check it out. Go to Manila, go to Corregidor, we as a peoples have bled together and that is a unshakable bond. With China rattling its saber, the problems with the spratlin islands, I don't know if Obungler would support the Filipino people. He likes the lessening of U.S. Prestige.

Ammo

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